A brief history of death

摘要: List of illustrations. 1 Journey Beyond. Gilgamesh. Adam and Eve. Death, Sin Atonement. Resurrection--Transcendence. Release--Transcendence. Self--Transcendence. Hope Faith. To Be or Not Be. Traditional Futures. The Uneasy Species. Death Our Future. Autobiographical History Death. Methods Approach. Words Against Myth Again. 2 Parting's Sweet Sorrow. Relationships, Destiny. Family Bonds. Hell, Life Work. Secular Ethics Loss. Freud Bowlby. Grief--Stages. Fixing the Unfixable. Helplessness. Aberbach Charisma. World Religions. Identity Identity's Demise Adulthood----Childhood, Maturity Parents. Moral--Somatic Links. Spiritualism. Departure. 3 Removing Dead. Souls. Status Ritual Change. Resurrection. Trends. Changing Times. Default Religion. From Respect to Dignity. Death--Style Belief. Cremated Remains. Space, Cryogenics Computers. 4 Ecology, Hope. Criminals, Heretics, Bodies Dying at Home. Hospice. Symbolic Bodies. American Ways Ecology. Springs Eternal. Forest. Positive Negative Dust. Spirituality Large. Death's Paradigm Shift. Ecological Immortality. 5 Art, Literature Music. Variety. Bible. Dante. Milton. Strains. Art. Portraying Religious Fusion. 6 Places Memory. Myth. Dynamics Memorial Sites. Locating Hope: Place How Speak Dead?. Location 1: Graveyard Cemetery. Eternal, Eschatological Form Identity. 2: Cremation Internal, Retrospective Fulfilment 3: Woodland Burial. Natural, Texts. National Arboretum. Lifestyle ---- Death--Style. 7 Fear A Mythical Form. Hinduism, Buddhism. Christianity. Albert Schweitzer C. S. Lewis. Essential Fear. Plague. Modern Devastations. Philosophical Fears. Psychology Picasso. Fears Real Imagined. Contemporary Imaginative Abolished. 8 Purposeful Useless Power Warfare. Genocide. Violence Heart. Disasters. Baby--Death. Suicide Euthanasia. Offending Deaths. Illness Future Christian Eternal Life. Margins. Age Hopeless Non--Places. 2020 Time Vision. World's Bibliography. Index